Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Leningrad Oblast
Detourmap lists 26 places in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Gogland. 16 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 26
- Oldest
- Yam Fortress 1384
- Little known
- 16 of 26
- Share of Russia
- 2%
Leningrad Oblast 26
All 26, best known first.
-
21.Petrovka, Leningrad Oblast
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Former village in Leningrad Oblast, Russia
-
22.Aeroflot Flight 3012
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
1970 aviation incident in the Soviet Union
Elsewhere in Russia
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Leningrad Oblast?
Gogland. Island in the Gulf of Finland in the eastern Baltic Sea. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Leningrad Oblast?
26: 15 nature & landscapes and 11 archaeological & historic sites. 16 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Leningrad Oblast?
Yam Fortress, dated to 1384. 3 of the 26 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Leningrad Oblast here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Leningrad Oblast if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Leningrad Oblast is a first-level division of Russia, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.